Hydrant.



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G. F. VOIGT. HYDRANT.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT.21. 1905.

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HYDRANTI'.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 21, 1905. Serial No. 279.521.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. VOIGT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jeffersonville, in the county of Clark and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Hydrant, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hydrants such as are provided with a slip-joint connection with the water-main, so as to prevent the shell of the hydrant from being fractured by the freezing of the main.

The objects of the invention are to improve and simplify the construction ofhydrants of the class indicated.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the peculiar combination and arrangement of parts and in the precise details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, the figure is a longitudinal vertical section through a hydrant constructed in accordance with the inventlon.

- Like reference numerals indicate corresponding parts in the drawing.

The numeral 1 indicates the shell or casing of the hydrant, which is partially embedded in the ground, as usual.

The numeral 2 indicates a flat closure-plate which is formed with a peripheral upstanding annular flange, which is internally threaded, so as removably to engage the lower edges of the shell 1. The closure-plate 2 preferably is formed'with a plurality of small perforations, as shown in the drawing, so as to provide means for permitting the escape of water which may accidentally leak into the shell 1. Closure-plate 2 is centrally pierced by a tube 3, which is formed integrally with the plate 2, as shown, the upper end of the tube 3 projecting upwardly into the shell 1 and the lower end of said tube 3 depending a considerable distance below the flat lower surface of the closure-plate 2.

Mounted for longitudinal movement in the shell 1 is a tubular valve-rod 4, which is provided at its lower end with a bell 5, slidably engaged with the upper end of the tube 3. The bell 5 is provided with packing means comprising a gland 6 and a packing-ring 7, surrounding the tube 3. The bell 5 is also provided internally with a partition or crosspiece 8, which is formed adjacent its periphery with a plurality of vertical passages 9. The partition 8 is provided with a soft or yieldable disk 10, which is removably secured in position by a screw 1 1 and is adapted to fit against and close the upper end of tube 3 when the tubular valve-rod 4 is moved downward. Adjacent its upper end the tubular valve-rod 4 is provided with a nozzle 12, which is connected with an elbow 13 and projects through a vertical opening 14 in the shell 1, the opening 14 being closed by means of, a slidable closure-plate 15, suitably secured to the nozzle 12. The upper end of the shell 1 is closed by closure-plate 16, through which extends a threaded stem 17, having a swivel connection 18 with the tubular valverod 4. At its upper end the threaded stem 17 is provided with a hand-wheel 19.

The reference-numeral 20 indicates an ordin ary supply-pipe or water-m ain, with which is connected an elbow 25, provided with an anchoring nose or projection 26, having a horizontal upper surface and a curved lower surface. The elbow 25 is provided with an upwardly-extending pipe-section 21, which slidably surrounds the lower end of the integral tube 3 and is provided with packing means comprising a collar 22, having an an nular flange 24, which serves to hold in position a packing-ring 23.

The closure-plate 2, with its upstanding peripheral flange and its integral tube 3, having at its upper end a sliding connection with the bell 5 and at its lower end a sliding connection with the pipe-section 21 of the elbow 25, affords an extremely simple, inexpensive, and durable construction by means of which the hydrant can be readily assembled and taken apart whenever necessary.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is- In a hydrant, the combination with a shell,

a tubular valve-rod provided with a bell, and a water-main having an elbow below the shell,

with the closure-plate and piercing the cen- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as tral portion thereof, the upper end of said my own I have hereto afiiXed my signature to tube extending upwardly from the fiat 010- in the presence of two witnesses.

sure-plateand slidabl en a in the bell,

and the lower end of said t be extending GEORGE VOIGT' downward below the flat closure-plate and Witnesses:

slidably fitting into the elbow of the water- GEORGE H. VOIGT,

main. MAUD PERRY. 

